Heck of a Commute This Morning.

Yep. Stubbed my toe on the door jamb between the bedroom and the office.

Piggy Bank

The VCR stopped working a few months ago. I found a DVD inside (courtesy of the Wee One) and removed it, thinking I had solved the problem. No dice. Every time I put a tape in it whirred, whirred, whirred, slowly coming to a stop with fuzzy screen. After it devoured “Arthur’s Family Fun,” we stopped using it altogether.

Last night, the husband bought a new 19-inch TV to replace the sad 13-inch model. (I know, we are leaping into the twenty-first century!) It’s one of those combination deals, with a DVD player built right in. The whole shebang was too big to fit into the TV cabinet with the VCR (which, though long broken, was of course still sitting in there). When the husband pulled the VCR out of the cabinet, it…jingled.

Oh, and it's Amy and "anonymous" who have got it! (Charles, was that you?) "Umpooka" is umbrella, indeed!

Leah, yogurt is "yoga" which also means "Yoda"--that makes for some confusing conversations. As in, "Me be yoga, me use light saba, eat me yoga!" (this usually said while brandishing a yogurt-covered knife)

Thanks for playing, ya'll.

Special Bonus Wee One Word: umpooka

If you can guess the meaning of that one, I'll reward you by publishing your name here on Quistilton News. I get at least three hits a day--you'll be internationally known in short order. Leave your guesses in the comments section.

So I turned on word verification for the comments section. Sorry.

This means you'll have to read a funny-looking security word and enter it when you leave a comment. It keeps robots from leaving unwanted spam comments. And you know, I was starting to get tired of deleting entries such as this one: "Hey, just read your blog, and boy is it GREAT! My friend has a blog about Indian wedding dresses!! Why don't you check it out? You can see all the best deals on Indian wedding dresses HERE (insert appropriate annoying link)." They weren't even putting them just on the home page, where I could find them--they were being hidden in old, archived posts. Grrrrr. Hopefully this security feature will work.

Why We Live Here

Wee One Translation Handbook

egebaytah = elevator
pooyah = pillow
woo-woo (recently also “woobie-woobie”) = dog
Hiyaeen = Halloween
hing (As in, “No me not hing!” ensuing tantrum) = swing
mine = my (this just has the effect of making her sound German)
Wega = Wegmans (as in, “Me go a Wega me get f(r)ee cookie!”)
white = green, pink, brown, blue, red
geen = gold (as in the shiny gold ford focus)
hank = thanks
Mama = Apparently, any woman she loves

Favorite song: Happy Birthday, preferably sung to the dog
Favorite phrase: “Me do it me own!”
Favorite activity: Clutching the dog’s lips